Offers advice and information on rural issues and topics as well as access to organised events and country shows and fairs.

Promotes the interests of rural people including country sports (hunting, shooting, fishing, falconry, ferreting, coursing, stalking), wildlife management, farming and food along with the wider concerns of jobs, rights, communities and social inclusion. It represents these interests in the media, Parliament, schools and throughout the UK.

The statutory body working to conserve and enhance the English countryside and to promote social equity and economic opportunity for the people who live there.